I really, really hate watching when veteran players of a certain genre start unnecessarily ganging up on new RPers who don’t know the ropes yet. Like, the level of harshness and rudeness in some of the writing is totally out of proportion to some of the naive errors committed. It makes me really sad, seeing that happen. I mean, we were all new RPers once, or familiar with RPing but new to the site. Is such a level of spite and disrespect really necessary for trivial mistakes we’ve all made at some point in our writing career? There’s a difference between offering constructive criticism and offering help and advice, and just being an asshole because you can. If someone has the writing skills to be in the casual section, they shouldn’t be told to go back to free because they don’t understand some things about the site’s format and design. On another note, I also hate when people hijack another person’s interest check by posting their own plot synopsis in it. Like, if you want this plot so much, make your own interest check? Start your own RP? It’s not that hard. Don’t enter someone else’s interest check and start spewing your own advertisements and ideas for how [u]you[/u] think their plot should be. Even if the prospective GM is new to the site, that’s just saying that you don’t value their creativity and ideas and that everything should be about you. It’s super disrespectful and it’s undermining the potential GM. And doing it just because they’re new to the site is like, wildly manipulative. *Disclaimer* None of this happened to me, I’m just a wickedly pissed off observer of some of the shit happening to new players. -End rant-